Category Archives: social justice

I may have forgotten a lot of details from my childhood, but I still remember the way I felt on the first day of school every year: excited to see my friends but dreading school work. Add to that anxiety, wondering if I would be cool enough or measure up. And for girls, that always […]

Yesterday I read some statistics (courtesy of Jeremy Willet’s blog) on fireworks and children: Nearly 13,000 people visit the hospital each year due to fireworks-related injuries. Over half those injured are children. Approximately 6,000 fireworks are launched during a 20 minute fireworks show. That is one firework every 5 seconds. One child dies every 5 […]